What is CVE-2024-53257?

CVE-2024-53257 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vitessio Vitess, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-12-03.

How severe is CVE-2024-53257?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

XSS in Vitessio Vitess

CVE-2024-53257

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. The /debug/querylogz and /debug/env pages for vtgate and vttablet do not properly escape user input. The result is that queries executed by Vitess can write HTML into the monitoring page at will. These pages are rendered using text/template instead of rendering with a proper HTML templating engine. This vulnerability is fixed in 21.0.1, 20.0.4, and 19.0.8.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (35.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Vitessio Vitess — versions >= 0.21.0-rc1, < 21.0.1, >= 0.20.0-rc1, < 20.0.4, < 19.0.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-53257?: CVE-2024-53257 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vitessio Vitess, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-12-03.
How severe is CVE-2024-53257?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.